Posted on 07/06/2014 1:43:31 PM PDT by Borges
Alan Dixon, who served two terms in the U.S. Senate from Illinois, died this morning at his home in downstate Fairview Heights, according to his son.
Dixon had been experiencing heart problems in recent months, his son Jeff Dixon said. He would have turned 87 on Monday.
Dixon, a Democrat, served in the Senate from 1981 until 1993. He was defeated by Carol Moseley Braun in the Democratic primary, his first political loss in more than 40 years of public life.
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One of the very few Illinois rats respectable enough to warrant a “RIP” instead of an “enjoy your meal, worms!!”.
He was quite popular, easily held the open rat seat by a disappointingly wide margin in 1980 as rats were losing the Senate, won a 32-point landslide reelection in 1986, which I think was an Illinois record at the time. Toppled by Mosesly-Fraud in the 1992 primary only because a third candidate took votes from him. It was probably the Thomas vote that set off the primary challengers.
This guy wasn’t that bad.
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